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The Copenhagen Test(2025)

Also known as Copenhagen

Archived · Peacock

7.1TV-MA8 eps
S01
MysteryAction & AdventureScience FictionThriller
ON AIR: DEC 27Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Copenhagen Test builds its near-future espionage around a premise that is genuinely unsettling: a man's senses have been hijacked, and whoever is watching through them does not know he knows. The sci-fi element stays intimate, no spectacle, just the creeping horror of a compromised mind in a world that looks ordinary.

Forced to perform normalcy as his only real tactic, the analyst cannot react, cannot confide, cannot slip. That performance becomes the story's sustained pressure point, a slow-burn of controlled behavior while paranoia accumulates underneath. The threat is invisible and internal, which keeps the dread quieter and more persistent than anything an external antagonist could deliver.

Best for

mind-hacked mystery, near-future espionage and Mystery

Story lane

Mystery and Action & Adventure

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Peacock

Official Premise

A first-generation analyst realizes his brain's hacked, allowing access to his senses. Stuck between the agency and hackers, he acts normal to reveal the culprits.

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